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Date: | 2004-11-26 (00:15) |
From: | Michael Walter <michael.walter@g...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Experiences with learning OCaml? |
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:16:12 +0000, Martin Berger <martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote: > i have to disagree. while SICP is a brilliant book that i used > to teach myself programming from (and nothing i learned as an > undergraduate really went beyond), these days, i'd recommend > Ocaml to beginners. scheme has one VERY BIG problem: it is > untyped (in the sense of static type checking). thinking about > types properly is such an important factor in becoming a good > programmer. it seems to me that there is little one can learn > from scheme that one couldn't learn from ocaml, and probably > learn better. So which equally "brilliant book" using ocaml do you recommend? ;-) Cheers, Michael